Badi H. Baltagi earned his PhD in Economics at the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. He
joined the faculty at Texas A&MUniversity in 1988, having served previously on the faculty at
the University of Houston. He is the author of Econometric Analysis of Panel Data and Econo-
metrics, and editor of A Companion to Theoretical Econometrics; Recent Developments in the
Econometrics of PanelData, Volumes I and II; Nonstationary Panels, Panel Cointegration, and
Dynamic Panels; and author or co-author of over 100 publications, all in leading economics
and statistics journals. Professor Baltagi is the holder of the George Summey, Jr. Professor
Chair in Liberal Arts and was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award in Research.
He is co-editor of Empirical Economics, and associate editor of Journal of Econometrics and
Econometric Reviews. He is the replication editor of the Journal of Applied Econometrics
and the series editor for Contributions to Economic Analysis. He is a fellow of the Journal of
Econometrics and a recipient of the Plura Scripsit Award from Econometric Theory.